The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

Judas Iscariot's death is told in two conflicting Bible accounts—one of remorse and hanging, the other of a gruesome fall in a cursed field.

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

In 1959, a new kind of club opened in Dallas. It was called The Rubaiyat. It served coffee. And, despite what Austin will ...

The prayer rituals for the formal recognition of his death April 21, his funeral and eight memorial Mass are designed as ...

The Vatican has announced that the Pope is dead. A series of arcane rites now occur and then the complex process of naming a ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

I think he said people mail them to him as well.” According to Gaar’s book, May isn’t just after any old coin; he has a very specific criterion any would-be pick needs to meet.

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...